Grunding has launched a Linux-based phone. Grunding have presented the mobile this month at the 3GSM Congress in Barcelona. The U900 runs Linux and an RTOS (real-time operating system) on a NXP ARM9-based SoC (system-on-chip), using VirtualLogix platform technology.

This clamshell is a 3G device. The U900 comes very well equipped. It features all standard options of these days. We didn’t find any news about availability and pricing. Below you can check the technical specifications and the performances of Grunding U900.
Here is the specifications list:

• Dimensions: 3.6 x 2.0 x 0.5 inches (92 x 50 x 14 mm)
• Weight: 94 grams
• 2-inch QVGA (240×320) TFT display with 262K colors
• External 96×64 OLED display supporting 65K colors
• 1000mAh Lithium-ion battery
• talk time up to 2.5 hours
• standby time up to 220 hours
• 2MP CMOS camera
• Zoom, LED flash, multishot
• VGA video camera
• Stereo audio player supports MP3, AAC
• Browser supporting WAP 2.0, xHTML
• SMS and MMS clients
• Image viewer for JPEG, GIF, Animated GIF, BMP, WBMP
• Melody formats AMR-NB, Midi
• Ringtones 64 polyphonic with ADPCM
• Internal user memory 100 MB
• Supports microSD cards up to 1GB
• Connectivity: Bluetooth and USB
• MIDP 2.0 Java game environment
• Animated wallpaper
• Picture CLI
• Date/time in idle screen
• Calculator
• Voice recorder
• Alarm clock
• Handsfree speaker
• Options: stereo headset, car charger, USB cable, bluetooth headset

[Credits: Linuxgobiz]

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